Attempting to serve gourmet thoughts from a brown bag mind.

As I “newsed” myself into the conscious today I came across this piece of retribution. It tells of how the rules and regulations of a “time” are often the fears and cronyism(s) of pseudo-Oligarchs. (I hope that the “executive” committee of my FORMER union may find the chance to read this and LEARN SOMETHING.) The problem of a lot of our rules/ policies that are/ have been ENACTED is that they were put into play because those that we gave “powers” to worked the “problem” from after the water had seeped through the barrier. Not heeding the proofs that the inclusion of, “seemingly”, unusable, (read:” UNDESIRABLE”.), “bonding” catalysts SHOULD be allowed. Therefore as “time” has moved FORWARD and rules have not allowed for the ‘growth’ of improvements. The sad part of all this is that the many adversely affected by fear’s rules will most often become the “AFFECT(OR)” at some later time… like NOW.

This terse is about sport, Games of COORDINATIONS and ORGANIZATIONS, and how “rules” are generally made to protect some from having to increase their abilities. The cry [ \”Let THEM Play\”] is often heard when “adults” feel embarrassed when the child of their concern has a game’s situation go against that child and they want a favorable outcome for their ward.This seems to last many lifetimes.

Buf·fa·lo // (bf-l)

A city of western New York at the eastern end of Lake Erie on the Canadian border. It is a major Great Lakes port of entry and an important manufacturing and milling center. Population: 276,000.

Buffa·loni·an adj. & n.

buf·fa·lo // (bf-l)

n.pl.buffalo or buf·fa·loes or buf·fa·los

1.

a. Any of several oxlike Old World mammals of the family Bovidae, such as the water buffalo and African buffalo.

b. The North American bison, Bison bison.

2. The buffalo fish.

tr.v.buf·fa·loed, buf·fa·lo·ing, buf·fa·loes

1. To intimidate, as by a display of confidence or authority: “The board couldn’t buffalo the federal courts as it had the Comptroller”(American Banker).

2. To deceive; hoodwink: “Too often . . . job seekers have buffaloed lenders as to their competency and training”(H. Jane Lehman).

Half Century Later, Buffalo’s Courage Finally Rewarded

ORLANDO — The longest bowl trip in college football history closed Saturday night when Buffalo took the field.

The players ambled out to midfield. One of them needed a cane. The rest just needed hair dye to look like they did when the bowl bid arrived.

It was 1958, and the Bulls promptly rejected it. They could have come to Orlando, but their African-American players would not have been allowed on the field.

Fifty-one years later, they were given a standing ovation.

“It was a chance to right a wrong,” Gerry Gergley said.

He was one of 34 players who finally got their trip to Florida. By now you’ve probably heard the story of that team. It never gets old because you can learn something valuable every time the old Bulls get together.

“It wasn’t anything we planned,” said Willie Evans, one of the two African-Americans on that team. “For it to reverberate 50 years later, that’s a long time.”

What reverberated with me was how society has progressed in the last half century, but how our sports culture has gone in reverse.

Nobody at the UCF game was involved with the 1958 Tangerine Bowl. Yet everybody felt they owed Buffalo an apology.

When they heard the present-day Bulls were playing at Bright House Stadium, local government and civic leaders arranged free airfare, hotel rooms and a reception for the ex-players. In a way, the old guys were lucky their trip took so long.

In 1958, there was no Disney World to visit. The bowl activities probably consisted of a cookout and a trip to a cross burning.

Evans (pictured right) grew up in Buffalo and had heard about things like Whites-Only drinking fountains. He never knew his skin color would cost his team a holiday vacation.

“I didn’t know the ugly finger stretched into athletics to the extent it did,” he said.

Orlando’s school district operated the stadium where the Tangerine Bowl was played, and it banned integrated games. Nobody in Buffalo realized that when they got the bid. They were just pumped to have gone 8-1 and won the Lambert Cup.

That went to the top small college program in the East. It may not sound like a big deal now, but it warranted an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show back then. Team captains Nicholas Bottini and Louis Reale accepted the trophy on national TV.

Everybody looked forward to getting out of frigid Buffalo and playing Florida State in far-off Orlando. Then the team was informed of the Tangerine Bowl’s policy. It held a vote whether to accept the bid.

“There wasn’t really a vote,” Gergley said. “We had no choice. We had to do what was right. Besides, Willie was our leading rusher and scorer.”

You wouldn’t know it by talking to him. Evans is 71 now, though he’s the one guy who looks as if he could still play. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills after college and is in five athletic halls of fame.

“That’s not the kind of thing you brag about,” he said, “and I hope you don’t spend much time on it.”

Imagine that, an athlete asking a writer to go easy on the praise.

“It’s not modesty,” Evans said. “It’s how I feel about it.”

It’s a feeling we could use more of in this chest-beating era. Maybe it’s a generational thing, but the old Bulls love to talk about each other, not themselves. They were a team that did everything together.

If Evans and Mike Wilson weren’t going to Orlando, nobody was going. What’s more, if anybody has a right to scream about being victims of racism, it would be the 34 men in navy blue shirts Saturday night.

There wasn’t hint of bitterness in the section where they sat. Sure, they were mad young men 50 years ago. But after they told the Tangerine Bowl what it could do with its bid, they moved on.

“You can’t hold on to anything like that,” Evans said.

These days, people can’t let go of the race card. The ugly finger Evans spoke of is still there. But the point gets lost when players like Milton Bradley interpret fan animosity as racial persecution.

Or Sammy Sosa’s bat explodes with cork and he blames the ensuing scrutiny on the fact he’s Hispanic. Or Torii Hunter says Barry Bonds was reviled because he’s African-American. Or Michael Vick is considered the victim instead of his dogs.

If only these modern-day martyrs could have spent a December holiday in Buffalo instead of Orlando 50 years ago, they would appreciate what real racism is. The Bulls took a stand against it, even if they didn’t realize what a grand one it was.

“It’s just something that happened,” Robert Muscarella said. “We made a decision and never really thought about it.”

Nobody really did until the Buffalo got the first bowl bid in school history last year to the International Bowl in Toronto. Then people started realizing it was actually the second.

“Now the story’s been told hundreds of times,” Stanley Kowalski said.

Only now it’s been told in a place where it all began. And it finally has a happy ending.

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It’s a shame that those with a gift to give are, MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, not within the BOUNDARIES of the moment’s RULES AND REGULATIONS.

At the ending of 2008,when the Presidential election’s candidates were standing before us, on any given dais, the various entities of the ‘union’ of “Town CRYERS” would bring us their contracted view of what had taken place. Unbeknownst to most Americans was the fact that since SOMEBODY OWNED said businesses that there JUST may be a tad of personal influence basted upon the words and visuals presented to “the masses” at the any given moment of each day.

When was the last news cast that you can recall that soaring, Pulitzer ready, uber ‘caster [Liz Trotta]? Have you noticed that Fox “News”has moved itself even further into the influencing of… [

…the American middle-class. Or what those who held their view through the Looking Glass, instead of remembering their acquaintance Matthew’s group of lessons/ “lessens”,(Matthew 7:24-26). It’s interesting to watch so many people stand at the shores of their next disaster, still [kissing the hand] of the same salesperson that provided them that “waterfront” view. ( See Matthew, above.)

But, MOST of ALL, the world is watching the “children of Kansas”, in their VERY DAZED STATE/ NATION, as they have ridden the “house” they’d “known” for their ENTIRE LIVES into this surreal new place. So now they’ve come upon these wonderous men “of great knowledge”, to lead them back to where “it’s comfortable, ” not realizing that all those [assorted \”TASKS\”] they’ve been running were for someone who only wanted to see IF the fabrics chosen for THEIR “utility room” will hide their inattentions.

Remember the lesson of LISTENING and WAITING to get the story right when you were in ELEMENTARY school ?

... besides "OTHER" problems of sharing ?

It “seems” that the ‘ Most MOST Trusted Name in News added a tad of pure [Sodium] to, both, the Potomac River and the President’s 9/11 observances Friday morning. (Mourning for the “editorial” staff management !)

The problem, mis-management/ -communications really WASN’T their FAULT… it WAS with a SECOND of our nation’s “organized group of protectors’ leadership, the COASTGUARD, ( Remember that “THRILLING” Air Force [ONE] photo-op (?) that makes George Bush walking into a door quite BENIGN.), who decided to INCLUDE THE SIMULATED AURAL PUNCTUATIONS OF GUNFIRE !!!

Ladies and gentlemen of America you cannot be THIS STUPID,IGNORANT, DENSE OR OBTUSE while “governing” over 300,000,000 people ! SOMEBODY IS CRYING WOLF. And if we laugh at these govern-MENTAL punch and Judy shows without checking the puppeteers we might find that the show was being held while our homes were being ransacked,(the “mortgage “crisis”.) and “they’ve” stolen our “crops”, (Gotta’ JOB ?). Nobody’s going to be/ get HEALTHY at this rate.

I’m not of the “Beck” School of Adnausium, but even a stopped clock is RIGHT TWICE a day.

There’s just one more thought… have you noticed that modern “Hunters” often set up their PREY by getting them USED to the hunters being there !?!

… And [these] [\”folks\”] are trying to fill said bucket by FINING someone who CAN’T afford it in the FIRST PLACE! The [ TWO-HUNDRED ONE MILLION] examples given by “Google-ing” about says it when the “BUCKET” is so big that those “in-charge” won’t even try to find a MORE MANAGEABLE tool for the job. And the sad part of it all is that the “two” opposing factions, ( actually’ fact’ shy.), really don’t CARE because it would give EVERY AMERICAN the SAME [health care plan] as they have… and [DON\’T want to] provide to the “COMMON” citizen. It’s time to WAKE UP folks, we’re going to HAVE to PAY, ONE WAY or ANOTHER. Politicians already have their future health needs in place. The ONLY other thing they need is …to PROLONG IT !!! The “Congressional Health Plan” is described as…

“They don’t receive “[\’Cadillac\’] insurance plans, but when it comes to health benefits, studies suggest members of Congress are at least driving the best Buicks on the block.”

…SO, those that should be doing SOMETHING OF the People, instead of B(u)Y the PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE. So that they should not BEAR this before they become EARTH.

Our politicians could net, (killing is what they seem to be ‘AIMING’ for.) two birds with that stone by manufacturing small buckets… giving folks a job and making so they can get some CARE for their HEALTH concerns.